Coronavirus vaccine shortages 'will last months', according to England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty. He said the shortage of jabs "is a reality that cannot be wished away" in a letter to doctors.
In England 786,000 people have had a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, with 264,406 jabs in Christmas week, while 944,539 have been jabbed in total throughout the UK.
Prof Whitty's letter goes on to say, "The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly the biggest health crisis in a generation, and certainly in our professional lifetimes. "We are at a critical point in the pandemic as the emergence of a novel variant of SARS-CoV-2 with a markedly higher growth rate is rapidly shifting the epidemiological curve in the wrong direction across much of